Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Engineering-Applied Research
Core
Lead a team of ML researchers and engineers to build and scale next-generation recommendation systems, balancing short-term business needs with long-term strategic breakthroughs.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Machine Learning / Recommendation Systems)
Builds
Production-ready recommendation systems and foundational embeddings for web-scale data
Domain
Internet / E-commerce / Recommendation Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Recommendation systems, state-of-the-art ML techniques, team leadership, technical roadmap ownership, cross-functional collaboration, business acumen, technical communication, academic publishing
Preferred skills
LLM/Agentic workflows, generative AI, top-tier conference publications (KDD, RecSys, NeurIPS, CVPR)
Technologies
Modern ML frameworks, LLMs, Generative AI
Responsibilities
Own technical roadmap and strategic vision for recommendation systems; transition breakthrough ML research into production; manage and develop a team of ML researchers and engineers; collaborate with Core Engineering, Ads, Infrastructure, and Data Science teams; mentor and coach software and ML engineers.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people management
